Former Name of Responsibility: Black Ops developer David Vonderhaar has based a brand new studio and introduced a brand new first-person co-op recreation.
The remote-first Los Angeles-based studio, referred to as BulletFarm, is backed by NetEase and on the hunt for workers. It’s engaged on “an bold new AAA recreation set in an authentic universe with an emphasis on co-operative gameplay”, NetEase mentioned. This unannounced new recreation is constructed utilizing Unreal Engine 5, and “will craft a extra intimate and relatable expertise whereas providing a recent tackle first-person gameplay.” Additionally at BulletFarm as inventive director is Chris Cowell, who additionally labored at Treyarch on the Name of Responsibility collection.
“Beginning this new studio has given me an opportunity to step out of my consolation zone and take a look at my hand at making one thing completely new and totally different,” Vonderhaar mentioned. “It is a departure from the video games I’ve labored on, however one which showcases my ardour for wealthy characters, exact mechanics, extra intimate storytelling, and many of motion.
“NetEase has supplied us an unimaginable help construction to discover these new avenues and permit true freedom to start constructing the idea and concepts for our recreation.”
“NetEase Video games is absolutely devoted to giving BulletFarm the assets and help required to construct this new first individual expertise,” mentioned Simon Zhu, president of world investments and partnerships at NetEase Video games. “David’s management and the early assortment of recreation growth expertise assembled on the studio is about to supply one thing really distinctive for his current followers together with a brand new viewers.”
Vonderhaar was Treyarch’s studio design director and had been with the Activision-owned firm for 18 years earlier than leaving final yr. Vonderhaar had labored on eight Name of Responsibility video games, beginning with 2005’s Name of Responsibility 2: Large Purple One and ending with 2020’s Black Ops Chilly Struggle.
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